On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 12:29:11PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: > Andrew, > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 07:44:22AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >And rsh is a dangerous service anyway. If you don't want it, > > >just remove the matching line in /etc/inetd.conf and use ssh. > > > > Ah but I *want* rsh. I just want it to work correctly. :-) > > Could this be the cause? > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-01/msg01052.html
It is. So, if somebody changes the pw_passwd field (which should contain the "unused on nt/2k/xp" entry, rsh behaves exactly is it does on a U*X system if a user has no password entry. Good to know. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
